How To Build a Homebrew PS3 Cluster Supercomputer

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @11:18AM from the slot-a-tab-b dept.

eldavojohn writes "UMass Dartmouth Physics Professor Gaurav Khanna and UMass Dartmouth Principal Investigator Chris Poulin have created a step-by-step guide designed to show you how to build your own supercomputer for about $4,000. They are also hoping that by publishing this guide they will bring about a new kind of software development targeting this architecture & grid (I know a few failed NLP projects of my own that could use some new hardware). If this catches on for research institutions it may increase Sony's sales, but they might not be seeing the corresponding sale of games spike (where they make the most profit)."

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Useless by Anonymous Coward · 2008-12-17 11:21 · Score: -1, Troll

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Pretty much useless by melted · 2008-12-17 11:35 · Score: -1, Troll

Pretty much useless, unless they figure out a way to expand RAM. 8-16GB of RAM would boost the number of things you could use this for tremendously. Funny they should mention NLP. NLP tasks typically deal with very large datasets. You ain't gonna be able to do much if you can only allocate less than 50 megs per core.